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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The toys were not community property at that moment.  The child was playing with them first and had a right to finish playing with them before your child took them away.  It isn't like your kid found unoccupied toys laying around.  If I was the parent, I would have watched this interaction carefully, but not intervened at that moment.  The girl was playing with the toys and told the other child that she wasn't done with them yet, maybe not in the most polite way, but not in a way that would make me intervene on a playground.  Your child hit, so you had to intervene. [/quote]

No, 4/5 year old was not playing with the toys. They were laying near her feet. You people don't read well.[/quote]

I think it's more that people are trying to read between the lines.  First you say that your toddler "tried to engage with" the four-year-old and the four-year-old "scooped up all the toys."  Then it comes out that your toddler took a toy that was "the closest to the four-year-old's feet."  The four-year-old was, it appears, not done with that toy.  You say she wasn't playing with them; she (and her father) might disagree.

Look, it's quite possible that the four-year-old was unnecessarily loud in saying "no" and that her tone warranted a response.  But I'm not sure I would have intervened immediately--the kid wasn't hitting, pushing, biting, pinching, or in any other way hurting or threatening to hurt the toddler.  I might have waited to see how it was playing out before stepping in.  I don't feel the need to micromanage my kid's every interaction on the playground.  I might prefer to address the behavior later, rather than playing referee.  [/quote]

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